Falstaff's Descendants in Pennsylvania Courts

Pleas without Bargaining: Guilty Pleas in the Felony Courts of Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania

outlines of two very different conceptions of the guilty plea process in answering the question: What makes the plea system work? While most observers agree some form of trial penalty exists to encourage pleas (i.e., a more severe sentence will be given to defendants who are convicted after trial), they differ over how pleas are put together. These differences form the basis for two competing m...

Descendants in Increasing Trees

Simple families of increasing trees can be constructed from simply generated tree families, if one considers for every tree of size n all its increasing labellings, i. e. labellings of the nodes by distinct integers of the set {1, . . . , n} in such a way that each sequence of labels along any branch starting at the root is increasing. Three such tree families are of particular interest: recurs...

Descendants of decamethonium.

W ITH perhaps one exception, decamethonium has been the parent of the main neuromuscular blocking agents introduced, since its discovery, for clinical trial as muscle-relaxants. Its descendants (see fig. 1) include suxamethonium (succinylcholine), suxethonium (362 I.S.), Ro 3-0386 and Laudolissin. The exception (fig. 2) is benzoquinonium (Mytolon), which was derived from an experimental anti-ba...

Pothole Repair in Pennsylvania

IN T R O D U C T IO N In the C om m onw ealth of Pennsylvania, the m anual repa ir of potholes involves an annual expend itu re exceeding $25 m illion, which is second only to snow rem oval in the m a in tenance budget. P rior to 1980, it was com m on practice for rep a ir crews to practice a “throw an d go” policy, w ith pa tch m ateria l p laced in the potholes w ithout rem oving debris or lo...

Lyme Disease in Pennsylvania